Hevel Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in WASHINGTON, Michigan, Hevel Elementary hosts 441 students from grades K through 5, part of Romeo Community Schools.

Romeo Community Schools comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,293 students; Hevel Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hevel Elementary lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hevel Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.1%.

In the area at large, Macomb County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,837, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Hevel Elementary is one of 236 public schools in Macomb County (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students).

Romeo High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hevel Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hevel Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hevel Elementary has rose 7%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 441 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 89% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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